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Some of his targets have been shot at before. ("Too many American newspapers are media of entertainment rather than of information"; "newspapers are failing to make the important news understandable," have "lost much prestige as leaders of public opinion".) But as he rakes these familiar topics, Marksman Markel occasionally discovers a new angle of fire...
...Union observation post, he nonchalantly rattled off the name of Major General John Buford as the post's commander. Moving south, Barth paused on a battlefield near Richmond. Va., raised a century-old Yankee musket to his shoulder, and proved himself the equal of an earlier Swiss marksman by scoring a bull's-eye on a white handkerchief 100 ft. away. Cried he: "Like William Tell...
Died. Adolph Toepperwein, 92, longtime touring marksman for the Winchester firearms company, a Texas gunsmith's son who won the unofficial title of world's greatest sharpshooter in a 1907 shooting match during which he gunned out of the air all but nine of 72,500 pine cubes the size of alphabet blocks, only stopped then because he had exhausted all the .22-caliber ammunition In San Antonio; of heart disease; in San Antonio...
...Moving to the target range, Kennedy watched delightedly as one 82nd paratrooper smashed all the red water-filled heads on his dummy targets with his .45. Blazing away with a newly issued M-14 rifle, another marksman so fascinated Kennedy that he called for the target, grinned as he held it up and displayed the riddled bull...
...recalls her mother, "she carried a toy rifle around with her. She'd sprawl out on the living room floor, and people would laugh and say, 'Look at that. Perfect prone position.' " Her father, who died when Lenore was eleven, was a topflight competitive marksman; her mother has been firing smallbore rifles for 24 years, last year won the National Women's Any Sight Championship. Stepfather Marvin Driver is a crack pistol shot and longtime director of the National Rifle Association. Lenore's kid sister Candy, 16, is the 1960 U.S. junior champion, was runner...